posted on 2024-06-05, 16:39authored byTheir Finest Hour Project Team
Cap, tie, tie - Royal Grammar School Worcester tie and cap. 6 years old when the war started. Collecting books for shell casings. Played drums during the war - YMCA Fernhill Heath. Played at VE and VJ day outside the house. Came to RGS 1944-1949. Mr Gilblin - WW1 got stabbed by a bayonet in the neck. Madame Robson (French teacher). Played sport. Chunky Chesel - master. Field Marshal. Book - Flag to Pretoria. Shot down in Bristol. Bombed a mecho garage - Engineering - During lunchtime saw a plane over Worcester, it was a German plane. A few planes crashed into the canal instead of the airstrip. Had a refugee from Birmingham with him.
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1. RGS Tie and Cap
2. Tie
3. 'With the Flag to Pretoria' Book
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George Harvey Cummings
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George Harvey Cummings
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Shared at RGS Worcester Perrins Hall, Worcestershire on 16 June 2023.